On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:42:29AM +0800, Chen Gong wrote: > I have 2 issues. > 1. I consider thread creation and RR thread execution don't share the > global data, so the serialization execution is not necessary. It is > enough to use another different mutex to lock thread exectuion itself > when these threads running concurrently. > 2. part of sysfs interfaces doesn't need to own mutex with thread createion. > Though some data maybe are not identical, it is not a big deal. ACK the first patch. NACK this one. I don't see any reason we need two locks here. This isn't hot code path, fine-grained lock just makes thing complex. Thanks, Shaohua -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html